Here is BG's highly skillful reply to your Palm Beach
talk with Golda. State feels as I do that BG's conditional "yes"
on refugees is in fact a flat "no".

By making Israeli agreement to a refugee plan conditional
upon prior working out of a total, final solution which must be firmly
accepted beforehand by the Arabs, BG has posed impossible conditions.
The Johnson Plan was based on tacit Arab acquiescence to a creeping
process on the grounds that this was the utmost we could get the Arabs
to accept. Nasser, for example, might tacitly agree to a 100,000 limit
on repatriation but he could never do so openly, for fear the other
Arabs would hang him.

Before abandoning ourselves to unrelieved pessimism
we'll talk with Harman on return, but I see little give.